Of course, the false-flag intel artists would never waste a live operation on Nigeria or Somalia; they save that for the important geo-strategic nations.
"Nigerians protest ill leader’s absence" by Associated Press | January 13, 2010
ABUJA, Nigeria - More than 1,000 Nigerians protested the long absence of their ill president yesterday, challenging the troubled democracy even after hearing his voice for the first time in nearly two months. President Umaru Yar’Adua left Nigeria on Nov. 23 to seek medical treatment in Saudi Arabia.
Sounds like a Shah of Iran situation.
He has long been troubled by a kidney ailment, and doctors have said he is now suffering from acute pericarditis, an inflammation of the sac surrounding the heart. In a telephone interview with the BBC aired early yesterday, Yar’Adua said his health was improving.... Although Nigerian law allows for a smooth transition of power from Yar’Adua to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, the 58-year-old president left without following any of those procedures.
Nigeria has a lot of oil, doesn't it?
Nigerian newspapers have taken to printing small calendar tags on their front pages, marking the number of days Yar’Adua has remained outside of the nation. They also have questioned his ability to lead when - or if - he returns.
Coup coming up?
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Here's a guy who never even made my printed paper:
His name is Sunday Agbata. He came to the United States as a stowaway on a ship from West Africa, on a deadly voyage that left one man crushed by a propeller and Agbata and another man subsisting on biscuits and water.
Desperate, they shouted to the crew for help and were turned over to federal authorities when they docked in Rhode Island.
Almost one year later, Agbata says he is still on a terrible journey, but this time it is through the federal immigration system. Agbata was ordered deported in July 2008 to his native Nigeria, but he says America will not let him go.
"They've kept me in jail. I don't know anything. I don't have anything," said Agbata, a 27-year-old who worked in an auto factory in Nigeria, wearing an orange jumpsuit during a recent half-hour interview at the Suffolk County jail. "I don't know what I will do."
The 10-month detention of Agbata is raising questions about why the federal government keeps some immigrants in jail long after they have been ordered deported, according to advocates and lawyers for the immigrants....
In Agbata's case, federal officials say they have kept him in jail because the United States cannot deport him to Nigeria until that government provides him with a travel document that will allow him to return home; he carried no passport or other ID when he arrived on US shores. Each day of confinement costs US taxpayers about $90.
Related: Hitching a Ride With Homeland Security
The Illegal Immigrant Imprisonment Industry
Starting to catch on?
Although Agbata has not been charged with a crime, they say, he violated civil immigration laws by attempting to enter the United States illegally.... "He didn't cooperate with us in obtaining a travel document; he didn't provide us with enough information," said Jim Martin, deputy field office director of detention and removal operations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, in New England. "We are still attempting to remove him."
But Agbata's lawyer said he has cooperated with the federal government, including providing information and contacting the Nigerian consulate to obtain the necessary papers. In February, ICE sent Agbata a letter saying it expected to deport him in the "foreseeable future," according to a copy of the letter. "It's extremely upsetting to think that in the United States we could hold people with no end in sight," said Andrea Sáenz, a lawyer at the Boston-based Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project, which discovered Agbata's case during a routine visit to jail....
Ever hear of Guantanamo?
On Friday, federal officials released Agbata's fellow stowaway, Alex Duna of Ghana, from Suffolk County jail until he can be deported. Duna, who was released shortly after he granted an interview to the Globe, will be on supervised release and will be deported as soon as possible, Martin said.... Nigerian and Ghanaian government officials in Washington did not return calls seeking comment on the cases.
In an interview before his release, Duna said he did not understand why he had to stay in jail for 10 months. He asserted that he was forced to take antipsychotic drugs in Plymouth County jail, where he was previously held, and put in a cold room as punishment. He produced a jail discipline report from January that said he refused to take medicine.
Then that is TORTURE in an AmeriKan jail!
Related: The State of Massachusetts is Mentally Ill
Liberal, compassionate, gay-loving Massachusetts!
Duna, a 25-year-old ice cream vendor, said Plymouth jail officials also punished him for 30 days for refusing to be strip-searched, forcing the cancellation of a planned interview with the Globe in April. He was transferred to Suffolk shortly afterward.
Paula Grenier, ICE spokeswoman, said the federal agency is investigating Duna's treatment after the Globe asked questions about it....
This they ask questions about!
The war lies and lootings? Naw!
"It's become a black hole," said Sarnata Reynolds, policy director for refugee and migrant rights for Amnesty International USA, in Washington. "People end up in these detention centers for months, even years. They have no lawyers. They're desperately reaching out to anyone that they can."
Related: Detained to Death
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Agbata and Duna said their experience is far from what they imagined when they began their journey one night last June off the coast of Benin, a hot, humid strip of land between Ghana and Nigeria.
Yeah, I KEEP SAYING the image of AmeriKa is flawed in our shameless self-promotion.
Don't get me wrong; it's better than a lot of places. However, it is far from the portrayal of perfect promoted by the papers and politicians.
Agbata, Duna, and Duna's cousin, Emmanuel Atta, huddled in the propeller room of a ship called the Dixie Sunbelt, hoping for a better life in America. Three days later, Atta slipped, was crushed by a propeller, and fell into the sea. Duna and Agbata banged on the walls so that the ship's crew could help them....
